The text-hex npm package is a simple utility that converts text strings into hexadecimal color codes. This can be useful for generating consistent colors based on text input, such as user names or other identifiers.
Convert text to hex color
This feature allows you to convert any text string into a hexadecimal color code. The generated color is consistent for the same input text.
const textHex = require('text-hex');
const color = textHex('example');
console.log(color); // Outputs a hex color code like '#3a2f5b'The string-to-color package also converts strings to color codes. It offers similar functionality to text-hex but provides more customization options for the generated colors.
The randomcolor package generates random colors but can also be used to generate colors based on a seed string. It offers more flexibility and options for color generation compared to text-hex.
The color-hash package generates a color based on a given string. It provides more control over the saturation and lightness of the generated colors, making it a more customizable alternative to text-hex.
Transforms a given piece of text to a hex color.
npm install text-hex
var hex = require('text-hex');
console.log(hex('foo'));
MIT
FAQs
Generate a hex color from the given text
The npm package text-hex receives a total of 9,219,830 weekly downloads. As such, text-hex popularity was classified as popular.
We found that text-hex demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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